Fracture and adhesion of soft materials: a review

C Creton, M Ciccotti - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Soft materials are materials with a low shear modulus relative to their bulk modulus and
where elastic restoring forces are mainly of entropic origin. A sparse population of strong …

[HTML][HTML] Revisiting nucleation in the phase-field approach to brittle fracture

A Kumar, B Bourdin, GA Francfort… - Journal of the Mechanics …, 2020 - Elsevier
Twenty years in since their introduction, it is now plain that the regularized formulations
dubbed as phase-field of the variational theory of brittle fracture of Francfort and Marigo …

Cavitation in soft matter

CW Barney, CE Dougan, KR McLeod… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Cavitation is the sudden, unstable expansion of a void or bubble within a liquid or solid
subjected to a negative hydrostatic stress. Cavitation rheology is a field emerging from the …

Damage evolution in polymer due to exposure to high-pressure hydrogen gas

SS Kulkarni, KS Choi, W Kuang, N Menon… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of hydrogen as a fuel is increasing exponentially, and the most economical way to
store and transport hydrogen for fuel use is as a high-pressure gas. Polymers are widely …

[HTML][HTML] Cavitation in elastomers: A review of the evidence against elasticity

E Breedlove, C Chen, D Lindeman… - Journal of the Mechanics …, 2024 - Elsevier
In spite of the growing body of evidence against it, the elasticity view of the phenomenon of
cavitation in elastomers continues to be utilized in numerous studies. In this context, the …

Damage in elastomers: nucleation and growth of cavities, micro-cracks, and macro-cracks

X Poulain, V Lefevre, O Lopez-Pamies… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
The nucleation of internal cavities and their transition to cracks are examined at high spatial
and temporal resolutions within polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomers of various cross …

[HTML][HTML] The poker-chip experiments of synthetic elastomers explained

F Kamarei, A Kumar, O Lopez-Pamies - … of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2024 - Elsevier
In a recent study, Kumar and Lopez-Pamies (J. Mech. Phys. Solids 150: 104359, 2021) have
provided a complete quantitative explanation of the famed poker-chip experiments of Gent …

Fracture and healing of elastomers: A phase-transition theory and numerical implementation

A Kumar, GA Francfort, O Lopez-Pamies - … of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2018 - Elsevier
A macroscopic theory is proposed to describe, explain, and predict the nucleation and
propagation of fracture and healing in elastomers undergoing arbitrarily large quasistatic …

Investigation of desorption of hydrogen gas from polymer matrix using thermal desorption analysis and finite element modeling

SS Kulkarni, Y Shin, KS Choi, K Simmons - Polymer, 2023 - Elsevier
Polymer materials are used widely as sealing materials and liners in hydrogen storage and
transportation infrastructure. During operating conditions, polymers are exposed to high …

Elastic cavitation and fracture via injection

SB Hutchens, S Fakhouri, AJ Crosby - Soft matter, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The cavitation rheology technique extracts soft materials mechanical properties through
pressure-monitored fluid injection. Properties are calculated from the system's response at a …